Shakespeare and Religion: Essays of Forty Years, Volume 7First Published in 2002. Part of the G.Wilson Knight collection, the essays included in this volume constitute a fairly consistent record of his attempts over a period of some forty years to explore the deeper significances of Shakespearian poetry and drama. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 4
... certainly, but even here a new depth was being plumbed in relation especially to royalty, to the crown. I recall what came on me as a sudden illumination like that I experienced when first recognizing the more mystical properties of the ...
... certainly, but even here a new depth was being plumbed in relation especially to royalty, to the crown. I recall what came on me as a sudden illumination like that I experienced when first recognizing the more mystical properties of the ...
Page 10
... certainly engaged in making myths of immortality; but he does it by relying on his own past play-designs of romance and tragedy, fusing these to make quite impossible stories through which the great truth, or fact, or whatever we choose ...
... certainly engaged in making myths of immortality; but he does it by relying on his own past play-designs of romance and tragedy, fusing these to make quite impossible stories through which the great truth, or fact, or whatever we choose ...
Page 15
... certainly no audience of Shakespeare's day could fail in response. Respect, even sympathy, is demanded. Claudius has a crime on his conscience and he tries to deal with it in the traditional way: by prayer and repentance. For our ...
... certainly no audience of Shakespeare's day could fail in response. Respect, even sympathy, is demanded. Claudius has a crime on his conscience and he tries to deal with it in the traditional way: by prayer and repentance. For our ...
Page 20
... certainly, contained thoughts subscribing to orthodox doctrine, such as Othello's crying out for his own damnation (v. ii. i. The reservation is necessary since the New Testament metanoein scarcely corresponds to 'repent* as we today ...
... certainly, contained thoughts subscribing to orthodox doctrine, such as Othello's crying out for his own damnation (v. ii. i. The reservation is necessary since the New Testament metanoein scarcely corresponds to 'repent* as we today ...
Page 22
... certainly house primitive and unmoral energies which Christianity had for many centuries done its best to stifle; and our artistic sense of a justification in their protagonist violences is not unrelated to our consciousness of a ...
... certainly house primitive and unmoral energies which Christianity had for many centuries done its best to stifle; and our artistic sense of a justification in their protagonist violences is not unrelated to our consciousness of a ...
Contents
1 | |
II BRUTUS AND CASSIUS 1927 | 39 |
Ill THE POET AND IMMORTALITY 1928 | 43 |
IV ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP 1929 | 53 |
V MYSTIC SYMBOLISM 1931 | 65 |
VI JESUS AND SHAKESPEARE 1934 | 69 |
VII ON HENRY VIII 1936 | 75 |
VIII THE MAKING OF MACBETH 1936 | 83 |
XV NEW DIMENSIONS IN SHAKESPEARIAN INTERPRETATION 1959 | 197 |
XVI TIMON OF ATHENS AND ITS DRAMATIC DESCENDANTS 1961 | 211 |
XVII THE TRAGIC ENIGMA 1964 | 223 |
XVIII SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGION 1964 | 227 |
XIX SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1964 | 241 |
XX NEW LIGHT ON THE SONNETS 1964 | 253 |
XXI C B PURDOMS SHAKESPEARIAN THEORY 1964 | 267 |
XXII SHAKESPEARE AND THE SUPERNATURAL 1964 | 281 |
IX ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON composed 1940 | 91 |
X FROM THIS SCEPTRED ISLE 1941 | 113 |
XI FOUR PILLARS OF WISDOM 1941 | 119 |
XII SHAKESPEARES WORLD 1942 | 133 |
A STUDY OF APU OLLANTAY 1947 | 139 |
XIV THE AVENGING MIND 1948 | 181 |
XXIII CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE 1965 | 293 |
XXIV SYMBOLISM 1966 | 305 |
APPENDIXES | 319 |
INDEXES | 365 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Aeschylus Antony appears Athens becomes Byron called certainly Christ Christian concerned creative criticism Crown danger death direct discussed drama Elizabethan England essay evil exist experience feel final force give greater Hamlet heart Henry VIII hero historical human imaginative important Inca interesting interpretation kind King less literature living Macbeth matter meaning mind mysterious nature never Ollantay once perhaps phrase play poet poetic poetry present problem question reference regard relation religious remains Richard royal scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shakespearian shows society Sonnets soul speak speech spiritual stage story suggest supposed symbolism Tempest theme things thou thought Timon tradition tragedy tragic true truth vision whole writing